Finland reigns supreme in Sauna World Championships
Sauna aficionados Finland withstood the heat longest to win the 2008 Sauna World Championships in Heinola, Finland, defending their current reign as s...
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Swedish women footballers edge Argentina to keep dream alive
Sweden’s Olympic women’s football team managed to pull out an essential 1-0 victory over Argentina to keep their hopes of progressing to the next grou...
Lightening strikes 91 people at Norwegian rally
A powerful lightening bolt hit 91 fans as they watched a rallycross event in Norway on Sunday, sending 57 people to hospital with burns. Fortunately, ...
Racing champ Loeb wins Finnish rally
Frenchman Sebastien Loeb, a four-time world champion auto rally racer, won his first Finnish Rally last week. He completed the three-day, 24-stage rac...
Norwegian ship cruises to victory in tall ships’ race
It may have been built in 1937, but the Oslo-based ship Christian Radich still had the legs to win the first stage of Norway’s annual Tall Ship’s Race...
Swedish women footballers beat Norway in Olympic warm-up
In the run-up to this summer’s Olympic Games in Beijing, the women’s national football (soccer) teams of Norway and Sweden met for a friendly match. T...
First swimmers cross the Gulf of Finland
Two Estonians became the first people in recorded history to successfully swim across the Gulf of Finland. They started their effort in Finland and en...
World’s biggest youth soccer tournament kicks off in Oslo
Boys and girls from all over the world have come to Norway to compete in the world’s largest single soccer tournament. The Norway Cup has been running...